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'News Of Week At ft Green V alley School Joe Phillips has been absent from school due to illness. ? The boys and girls have com pleted their North Carolina book lets. The table of contents con tains three North Carolina songs, facts, m:,!*, toast, State bird and flower, questions and answer*, seal, motto, flag, and the Venus Fly Trap. The following pupils still have perfect attendance for the year: Dewey Culler, Jerry Winebatger, Linda Carroll, and Jeannie Greene. Our community and school ex perience ? great climax to a year's i>ork each time the annual PTA chicken supper has been complet ed. It has become traditional with our people and also with the peo ple from all over the county who are becoming acquainted more and. more each year with the wonder ful meal and fellowship. The ac tivity is a great asset to our com munity as a means of public re lations and also of acquiring funds which are used for projects related to the enlargement of the facilities in the school. Our people are to be commend ed for a job well done again this year. The cooperation of all gronps is responsible for the great success attained. Special thanks must be said to the following group*. Parking the cars ? the Green Val ley Scouts. Publicity ? Mrs. Earl Greene. Decorating? Mrs. Ralph Buchan an, Mrt. J. T. C. Wright. Cooking ? Mesdames Blaine Mill er, Roscoe Greer, Wilson Brown, Raymond Jones, George Moretz, Sam Moretz, China Lavender, By num Proffitt, awl HUH Pit Proffitt Serving Food? Meadamts Rus sell Norris, Clint Miller, C. a Mc Kinney, Warren Oreene. Coy Greene, John- Greene Gladys Stev en*. - ' ? ? ' Serving tables ? Mesdaires Paul Winkler, Tommy Greene, John Green and i large (roup it gram mar trade girls, * - Mr-'- ? , Entertainment? Mrs. Ralph Bn chanan and a group of school chil dren. tickets? Mrs. George Moretz, Mr. Clyde Williams, Dr. J. T. C. Wright, Mr. Ted Hagaman, Mr. John Marsh. Dishwashing ? Mesdaines Hubert Norrts, Clyde Williams, Paul Greene, ?Willlard Nerria, Woodro* Starnes, H. L. Coffey, Herbert Fo? ter.'Troy Norris, Bill Krider, Alex South. Ted Hagaman, Alfred Ad ams.' We also want to thank all of the many more who helped whose names are not on this list. Also those who bought the tickets and made it possible for the supper to be the biggest chicken supper we have ever had. The Polio Vaccine The Watauga County Health De partment came to our school and administered the firit shots of the Salk vaccine to our first and second grades last week. School tsrenad Improvement The improvement of our school grounds is moving along at a rapid pace. People entering the school will notice that 50 pine trees have been set along the left drive. We hope to have these pines on each side of both drive*. Something over 400 pine seedlings have been *? i, . * ?? V ? Join in the Campaign MAY 2-14 Clean-Up ? Fix-Up PAINT UP tAr< -* * - Perfect Match for WAllS and TRIM ? GLIDES ON EAS'LY ? NO PAINTY ODOR ? EXTREMELY WASH ABLT ? VARIETY OF LOVELY COLORS Fhftt for Kit chut bathroom wtrih, Mo WAUHIBC SATINHIDE Win hide f- n a inc I teE3 ' W? IMt' ; v Now. . . you can color-schomo a room to nearpets, drapory fabrics "-even pictures! - - ? --* with Pittsburgh'* ?x citing, n?w Maestro > Colors Hundreds of today'* mott-wantod 1 _ |_ ?L MM_i MugL |mL Hw?? in J'wOT vii>^wW^n oik yd"typ^ finishes. Here > the answer to every Dome decorator s dream! Hundred* of tint* and shades of modern, fashioo-wi*e colon. Available In Pittsburgh'! rubberized and alkyd type Flat wall paints . . . and in loir- lustre Satinhidi EnameL Use our handy color selector to help you color scheme from rugs, drapery or upholstery fabrics, even the pictures on your wall. Well custom-mix colors you want ifl ? matter of minutes. wntwm wro-fag teOKnfiSTBliiin^f Farmers Hardware &*g ' Supply Jo., Inc. I|| iff* Everything in' Hardware and AtsocktUd line* 102 King Street J^Booiie, North Carolina | worst with the hop* that it might tie cheeked or completely stopped. A (mail start has been Inafle oil the hemlfek hedge which wo hope will someday complete!) border tlie playground fcr?a. Th* Various grades have done a fine job is pre paring the soil and helping to seed the various assigned areas of the hill leading to the playground. They are being trained to help care for this afea also. All of these shrub* and seed lings have been \ donated by the patrons of fee school and many more have been donated which have not been delivered and set ai jret due to a lack of time. Mott of the work on this project has been done by school children as sisted by their teachers, the prin cipal, bus drivers and the janitor. A great spirit of cooperation is in evidence in all of the work that is being carried on. If there are *ny patrons who have shrubs to donate, or have advice on the improvement of the grounds, please feel free to make contact with Mr. Harsh it any time. ? Mrs. Greece's Third Grade We were sorry to lose two mem bers of our class recently. Carolyn and Grady Miller moved to Park way School. One of the most interesting pro jects in our room is "Building Our Community." ? history project. Some of the buildings already completed are: Meat Camp Baptist Church by Floyd Greene; Old Green Valley School, by Gary Brown; Proffitt's Grove Baptist Church by Jimmy and Harold Prof fitt; .a house of today by Bernard Johnson; and a dairy barn by all Thii may be due to a number el factors but is usually due ie cool temperatures early in the growing season when the first two clusters of blossoms appeal. It haa been found that applications of certain plant hormones to the blossoms will cause fruits to set. la many cases these fruits are seedless or almost seedless Experiments have sho#n that, in the case of toma toes, it Is only worth while to spray the honttone on the first two or three clusters. These hormones the boys in the room. The girls are helping make the turnltttre and costumes of long ago ?fid now. ' 1 "M|ff Hp .Jd ? IhoUld be used to tho directions given by B*, otherwise they of hehv? wrjnfc ^ erf the^toguto fruito. Thfe *>ms on a cfuster do not open one time it wilt require at least two applications (or each cluster. Many commercial growers are now I using fruit setting hormones sue- 1 cessfully tad there is no reas< why they should not be successful in the home garden especially in cool growing season. The fact that many ffttfts would be seedless might be an added attraction or in centive. I Reports indicate that the North Carolina late spring harvest cab bage ciflp is in only fair to poor I condition due to the late March "if*. y-irSr* , If j'our Mother is living give Her a lovely corsage, or flowers for Her home. If She has passed on, pay tribute to Her memory with flowers for her grave. AUTHORIZED TELEGRAPH DELIVERY SERVICE Carolyti's Flower Shoppe RALPH AND CAROLYN WHATLEY BUS STATIN BLDG. DIAL AMherst 4-8201 ?* * ? i i ' i ; Berea Alumni To (father Saturday ierea (*olle|e Alumni U?ni AJhf, A*n a meet Satur Boone MtUtfcll I ok and fcumoh, It *ai announced this week by the Rev. S. H. Lowrnan All Berea graduates to attend ftieaic and expected l their families and a ? TIT expert* of aD to- 1 combined during | one per cent low but were still ^rell I of the preordinf INSTALLMENT BUYING A. * Ja?,ur, >Ut, . credit aggregated $22,4 Auto loan* amounted to 000,000; loan* (or other good*, >5,809,000,000; loans home r*t>airi and $1,974,000,000; awl HTM, 000,000. Telephone AM 4-3691 ???. FM* tS" 19* H GRADY f AATH0.O - ?ATT H. G.tMO BOONE, NO*TH CAROLINA Punch-line to the years hottest power story Chevrolet "Turbo-Fire V8"! ? ' i ' v.'-i ? ' ' " V"' i,&SaW:1v'?b Thefe'* only one way you'll really dis cover the hottest power story of the yeXr. Get aboard a new Chevrolet that packs a bundle of velvety TNT under the hood? the new ? "Turbo-Fire V8"l For this is the engine that's writing a whole new chhpttr in the book of auto mobile performance records. This is the engine that las stock ear timers doing a "doable take" at their stop -watches wherever experts gather to compare the abilities of the 1155 cars. For example, in the rocfcat N AST Aft* stock ear competition at Dkjtoia Beach, Florida, Chevrolet literally ran away from every other ear in it* ciass? and a raft of others besides. In the oae- mile straightaway ran for low-pHced cars, the first two places -and six of the first ten went to CheVrolets. And in acceleratloa rans from a standing start against all comers, Chevrolet beat aM other low priced can? and every high-priced car except one! > What's behind this blazing perform ance? A compact honey at a V8 that only the world's leading producer of valve-ih-head engines, can build. Chev rolet's new "Turbo-Fire V8" has the shortest piston stroke in the industry ffliaf wmaam* 1/utn niafnn fnotrol ? ? ? longer engine life)! And it delivers the highest power per pound of ant V8 in the low priced field. It's so efficient that it requires only four quart* of oil inatead of the usual five ma muctnfutMm 1 1- '\i ??? . >. needs less radiator coolant, too. It'a the most modern V8 under any body' $ hood! But the thing you'll like most is the way it puts a ne to kind of fun In yoitr driving lite. Ytfkt're in charge of 182 high-spirited horsepower with the ne it "Turbo-Fire VtT and it you're looking tor even more expttement, the new "Super Turbo-Fire VtT (optional at extra cost) putt 180 h.p. under your toe. Pick the one you'd rather Have fun with, then come in and |0t behind the wheel. Youll see why the Motoramic Chevrolet III thowing its heels to every one else on the road I No othorlow-pdcod ear Hat any? no hlgh-prUad car hat alt? of these groat Chevrolet fkalWMl ? * Boil fry Fisher ? You see it on aome of the highest-prided can. Nine engine drive choices tn any model? The great est choice going. It-volt electrical tf stem ?Twice the voltage of other low-priced cars. Anti-Dim braking? A Chevrolet exclusive for heads-up (to pa. Outrigger rear springs? Wtde-apsced for ataadjr cornering. Ball-Race steering ? Turns on ball bearings. High- Level ventilation ?Cleaner, fresher air. Double-Arch eotri construction? Extra strength and safety. a ? ? ^*1 - . 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